I'm completely with you on the McConaughey thing.
I just recently finished up watching Dallas Buyers Club, Mud, and Wolf of Wall Street. He was absolutely brilliant in all of them, even in Wolf, where he played a very small role.
Hes doing exactly what Leo and Brad Pitt did for themselves, but for him it seems to have come a lot later in his career. Do the heart throb thing, and then really start acting.

Yeah. He has always shown he could be great with movies such as A Time to Kill and Frailty, but he has even stepped up his game since those performances.